eBay scam - please take care

Archergirl

If you get an email from anyone you can check the address it has been sent from, if it's some random garbled one it's not going to be PayPal or eBay or anyone reputable....

Tigg

An old post but this is still relevant, check  https://www.ebayforcharity.org/get-involved/selling-for-a-charity/

Go to 'view your dashboard' link on the above page to check for invoices to pay donations that are due on ebay

[Deleted User]

@Tigg Posting on a 12 month old thread isn't necessarily going to be seen by the OP.

Marvel1

marcia_ said:

 I think in entering your card details to pay they can access more than the fiver. 

 Other email & txt scams like this see people's bank accounts emptied. 

Not forgetting your password - they will then try a load of sites with your email and password to to see if they can log in.

I had one this morning from "Facebook" body of email saying:

 Hi (My name), 

We received a request to reset your Facebook password.

Enter the following password reset code:

67426768

Alternatively, you can directly change your password.

What made it more realistic is using my first name.

It's a fake as a gogle serach of the subject header - 67426768 is your Facebook account recovery code comnfirm it.

zackary71

I've had same email, and it was genuine. I sell a few bits with Charity donation, and it goes via PayPal still. You can check Seller Charity Dashboard, as mine matched the email. Alternatively, you can click on sender email address, it should show service@paypal.co.uk. Hope that helps.

TMSG

Archergirl said:

If you get an email from anyone you can check the address it has been sent from, if it's some random garbled one it's not going to be PayPal or eBay or anyone reputable....

I know the OP and this message is old, but this caught my eye and needs, I think, a big warning. The sender's email address as shown by most email clients/web sites can be easily spoofed and is absolutely no guarantee that the mail actually came from say joe.biden@whitehouse.gov.

It is possible to check whether an email is genuine by going through some of the header information, either by following the chain of mail servers it went through or by looking for headers with mail authentication information like SPF, DKIM or DMARC. However, this is not always available and it's technically not trivial to do correctly.

So best not to assume that a given sender email addy is actually what it says it is.